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Big ideas: a celebration of French artist JR’s installations – in pictures

14-09-2024 18:00

Since the mid-2000s, enigmatic French artist JR has been bringing large-scale photographic projects to cityscapes around the world. His public installations range from trompe l’œil optical illusions to series raising awareness about the plight of refugees, foregrounding the experience of marginalised or oppressed communities. His work has been collated in a far-reaching monograph, originally published in 2015, with a revised edition including 140 new images and a foreword by film-mak

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Icelandic fishing giant Samherji sues art student for spoofing corporate website

14-09-2024 16:57

High court told ‘culture-jammed’ apology for high-profile corruption scandal ‘did not qualify as parody’Iceland’s biggest fishing company is suing an art student at London’s high court for spoofing its website and issuing a fake public apology over a high profile corruption scandal.The costly lawsuit, which will be heard this month, is feared by the student’s supporters to have a potentially chilling effect on artists engaging critically with large corpo

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From straw hats to milk bottles: why genius design doesn’t need to be expensive

14-09-2024 16:38

Experts were invited to pick their hero products for London Design Festival show that redefines ‘well made’ for todayVisitors to this year’s London design festival can expect to see everything from an installation inspired by Barbie’s Dreamhouse to an exhibition devoted to the late furniture designer Robin Day.At the Yorkton Workshops in Hackney, east London, however, the cutting-edge show features clothes pegs, hammers, smart cards and a case for carrying Pringles crisps

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‘They have done fantastically well’: how London’s blockbuster Vincent Van Gogh exhibition is reframing myths

14-09-2024 15:00

The five-star Poets and Lovers show at the National Gallery will dispel the tortured genius labelVincent van Gogh’s maverick talent has put him at the centre of European culture for more than a century. His works make headlines when they sell, from the record-breaking moment his Irises went for £27m at Sotheby’s in 1987, right up to this month’s predicted hoopla in Hong Kong, where Christie’s are to auction his riverside scene, Moored Boats, painted two years earlie

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Agatha All Along to Tracey Emin: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

14-09-2024 07:00

Kathryn Hahn returns as the nefarious witch in a WandaVision spin-off, and 90s nostalgia is back in full swing with deeply emotional new canvases from the British artistIn Camera
Out nowNabhaan Rizwan is electrifying playing a struggling actor attempting to crack the British film biz, in this dreamy but razor-sharp satire of the industry. Poetic and surreal as well as savagely insightful, it’s one of the best debuts of the year, from first-time director Naqqash Khalid. Continue r

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